16th INTERNATIONAL
PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
19 MAY – 4 JUNE 2016
CYPRUS
19
May & 4 June / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia
27 May
– 2 june / ROYAL MANOR HOUSE, KOUKLIA
Since its inception sixteen years ago the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival has established itself
as the highlight of the Pharos Arts Foundation's Concert and Recital Series,
garnering enthusiastic acclaim from music lovers all over the world. Guided by
a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence, the Pharos Festival has
become one of Europe's preeminent music festivals, while it has made chamber
music more accessible to the general public in Cyprus, by presenting exciting
programmes and performances of the highest level by some of the world’s most
renowned soloists. The Festival also maintains a strong tradition of community
service, with educational concerts organized for students of public schools and
a number of master-classes for young instrumentalists.
The 16th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival features a line-up
of twenty unique musicians who will join forces for eight concerts at The Shoe
Factory in Nicosia and at the Gothic Hall of the Royal Manor House at Kouklia,
Palaipaphos. Exploring the many forms of the chamber music genre, the Festival
will encompass an impressive array of instrumental combinations and repertoire,
ranging from Paganini and Boccherini, all the way through Mozart, Schubert and
Brahms, to Shostakovich and Prokofiev, as well as a number of rarely performed
masterpieces.
Between 27 May and 2 June 2016, some of the world’s greatest musicians will
join forces for six concerts at the Royal Manor House in Kouklia, which is
specifically transformed by the Festival to a first class recital hall.
The Festival will host,
for the first time in Cyprus, the great Yuja
Wang – a pianist who radiates palpable magnetism and a distinctly
contemporary sensibility, described as “simply, the most dazzlingly, uncannily
gifted pianist in the concert world today”. The Festival will also welcome the
return visit of the exceptional Yevgeny
Sudbin – hailed as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st
century”.
Along with the
Festival’s regular guests – distinguished cellist and artistic director of the
Festival Alexander Chaushian,
Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Daishin
Kashimoto, the impressive violinist Boris
Brovtsyn, violinist Levon
Chilingirian and violist Diemut
Poppen this year’s Festival will also host, the fascinating German pianist Katharina Treutler, violinist Henning Kraggerud – famed for his deep
natural musicianship, virtuosity and beauty of tone, renowned double-bass
player Nabil Shehata, the remarkable
Alessandro Carbonare – principal
clarinettist of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Fabio Zanon – one of the pre-eminent guitarists of our times,
violinist Monika Urbonaite, violists
David Abrahamyan and Shira Majoni, cellist Tim Park, and two wonderful and
extremely charismatic young singers – soprano Ruzan Mantashyan and Cypriot baritone Markos Kleovoulou.
ARTISTS:
Piano: Yuja Wang,
Yevgeny Sudbin, Katharina Treutler, Maximilian Kromer
Violin: Daishin
Kashimoto, Henning Kraggerud, Boris Brovtsyn, Levon Chilingirian, Monika
Urbonaite, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
Viola: Shira Majoni,
Diemut Poppen, David Abrahamyan
Cello: Alexander
Chaushian, Tim Park
Double-Bass: Nabil
Shehata
Clarinet: Alessandro
Carbonare
Guitar: Fabio Zanon
Soprano: Ruzan
Mantashyan
Baritone: Markos
Kleovoulou
FESTIVAL
PROGRAMME:
You can download the
detailed Festival programme by visiting this link: http://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Pharos%20Music%20Festivals/CMF%202016.pdf
INFORMATION:
PHAROS ARTS
FOUNDATION
Tel: +357 22-663871
Website: www.pharosartsfoundation.org
TICKETS:
Tickets: €10
Box
Office: Directly from the Foundation’s website www.pharosartsfoundation.org or
Tel. 9666-9003 (Monday - Friday 10:00am-3:00pm)
Tickets also available from: KYRIAKOU FULLPAGE
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